Upgrade to 11.04

[Liam Proven]

On 15 May 2011 04:24, Douglas S. Saylor <absdoug at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 05:59 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> What would be the suggested method to upgrade to 11.04 from 10.10. I
>> suppose there are 2 methods, one is through Update Manager and the
>> other is a Clean Install using CD/USB
>> Any pros and cons of the above two methods?
>
>   I'm no expert, but I can't think of ANY worthy reason for
> updating/upgrading. I had an upgrade fail once, forced to do a clean
> install & I started thinking ...why WOULD I do an upgrade? The clean
> install from a USB took 15-minutes from the partition screen to 1st
> boot. Took WAY longer to upgrade & in the end failure. Maybe BECAUSE I'm
> no expert I can't imagine NOT doing a clean install.
>   With Micro$oft Windows computers I fix for friends, a clean install
> is a panacea. Again, maybe because I'm not expert ...but if you have all
> your files backed-up, why NOT clean install? Perhaps I will learn the
> benefits of updating/upgrading!

Why upgrade? Because I have about 20 additional applications installed
either directly from repositories or from PPAs or 3rd party
repositories or in 1 or 2 cases from .DEB files or something. Because
I have customised my system.

And it worked, too:
http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/26298.html

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